Major research on nutrient and pesticide leaching from cultivated soils, including first European paper in 1974 on the dynamics of groundwater nitrate pollution from ‘post-war agricultural land-use practices’, and subsequently on the management of diffuse pollution and groundwater use for irrigated agriculture.
| 1974 | FOSTER S S D & Crease R I J Inst Water Engrs 28 : 178-194 | Nitrate pollution of Chalk groundwater in East Yorkshire – a hydrogeological appraisal | F-1 |
| 1976 | FOSTER S S D MAFF Tech Bulletin 32 : 68-91 | The vulnerability of British groundwater resources to pollution by agricultural leachates | F-2 |
| 1981 | FOSTER S S D & Young C P Royal Society of London : 47-59 | Effects of agricultural land-use on groundwater quality with special reference to nitrate | F-3 |
| 1982 | FOSTER S S D, Cripps A C & Smith-Carington A K Phil Trans Royal Soc 296 : 477-489 | Nitrate leaching to groundwater | F-4 |
| 1983 | Lawrence A R, FOSTER S S D & Izzard P W J Instn Water Engrs & Sci 37 : 410-419 | Nitrate pollution of Chalk groundwater in East Yorkshire – a decade on. | F-5 |
| 1987 | Parker J M, Booth S K & FOSTER S S D. P Instn Civil Engrs : 83 : 15-32 | Penetration of nitrate from agricultural soils into the groundwater of the Norfolk Chalk. | |
| 1989 | Geake A K & FOSTER S S D Hydrol Sciences J : 34 : 79-95 | Sequential reprofiling of the isotopes and solutes in the unsaturated zone of the British Chalk. | |
| 1992 | Chilton P J & FOSTER S S D NATO-ASI Series G: 30 : 333-347 | Control of groundwater nitrate pollution in Britain by land-use change. | |
| 1993 | FOSTER S S D, Chilton P J & Stuart M E J Inst Water Envir Mgmt 5 : 186-193 | Mechanisms of groundwater pollution by pesticides. | F-6 |
| 2000 | FOSTER S S D Q J Eng Geology & Hydrogeology 33 : 263-280. | The 9th Ineson Lecture : Assessing and controlling the impacts of agriculture on groundwater – from barley barons to beef bans | F-7 |
| 2008 | FOSTER S & Candela L Royal Soc Chemistry Publn : 454–470 | Diffuse groundwater quality impacts from agricultural land-use: management and policy implications of scientific realities | F-8 |
| 2010 | Garduño H & FOSTER S GW-MATe Strategic Overview Series 4 : World Bank | Sustainable groundwater irrigation – approaches to reconciling demand with resources | F-9 |
| 2010 | FOSTER SSD & Perry CJ Hydrogeology J 18: 291-294. | Improving groundwater resource accounting in irrigated areas: a prerequisite for promoting sustainable use | F-10 |
| 2012 | FOSTER S & Shah T GWP Perspectives Paper | Groundwater resources and irrigated agriculture – making a beneficial relation more sustainable | F-11 |
| 2013 | Fraters D & FOSTER S IAH News & Info Aug 2013: 10–11. | Can the land produce more food and harvest acceptable groundwater? | |
| 2018 | FOSTER S, Pulido-Bosch A,Vallejos A, Molina L, Llop A & MacDonald A M Hydrogeology Journal 26: 2781-2791 | Impact of irrigated agriculture on groundwater recharge salinty : a major sustainability concern in semi-arid regions. | F-12 |
| 2019 | FOSTER S & Custodio E Water Resources Management 33 : 2139-2151 | Groundwater resources and intensive agriculture in Europe – can regulatory agencies cope with threat to sustainability. | F-13 |
| 2020 | Fernandez-Escalante E, FOSTER S, & Navarro-Benegas R Hydrogeology Journal 28 : 2601-2612 | Evolution and sustainability of groundwater use from the Ica aquifers for the most profitable agriculture in Peru. | F-14 |
| 2021 | FOSTER S & Chilton J Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 23 : 100288 | Policy experience with groundwater protection from diffuse pollution – a review. | |
| 2021 | FOSTER S & Chilton J Water 13 : 2417 | Institutional issues around agricultural land-use control for groundwater conservation –a long-term perspective. | |
| 2022 | FOSTER S Wiley Irrigation & Drainage 2022 : 1-7 | Salinization of groundwater by irrigation return flows. | |
| 2022 | FOSTER S Intl J Water Resources in Arid Environments 11 : 159-165 | Understanding the risks of groundwater irrigation in arid terrains. | F-15 |
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